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After the fall : war and occupation in Irène Némirovsky's Suite française / Nathan Bracher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bracher, Nathan, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942. Suite française.
- Némirovsky, Irène.
- World War, 1939-1945--France--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- War in literature.
- France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this work, the first critical monograph on Suite française, Nathan Bracher shows how, first amid the chaos and panic of the May-June 1940 debacle, and then within the unsettling new order of the German occupation, Némirovsky's novel casts a particularly revealing light on the behavior and attitudes of the French as well as on the highly.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Timely representations
- Narrating the fall
- Epic suffering
- Accounting for disaster: tempête en juin and its contemporaries
- Occupational hazards
- Portraits of the Nazis as young men
- Private lives and public stories
- Reaching the rendezvous with destiny.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1926-4
- OCLC:
- 820719987
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